HALtheWise

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by HALtheWise 8y ago
The biggest reason for planetary protection guidelines is the risk of life escaping from the spacecraft and being mistaken for native life. The moon is so ridiculously inhospitable that it isn't much of a concern because no known life
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There are people successfully running Flutter on desktops, but it isn't currently the main thrust of the project. https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-on-desktop-a-re...
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1. Facebook definitely doesn't have full and complete trust in their own systems, they are vulnerable to hacking, downtime, and mistakes just like any other service, and they know it. This is the same reason companies release messaging
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This article has some good points, but I don't agree with it's treatment of the SPDY->HTTP/2 and QUIC->HTTP/3 process. In both cases, Google engineers identified a real problem, made a prototype solution, encourage
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by HALtheWise 8y ago
If the change as originally proposed went through, it probably wouldn't affect most uses of bitbanging low level code because they are already using int32/int64 rather than int (which has different size on different platforms). Yo
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by HALtheWise 8y ago
The best twin studies look at pairs of identical twins who were separated at birth and raised in different households. If they still end up more similar to each other than to their adopted siblings on some trait, we conclude that trait has
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by HALtheWise 8y ago
Ummm... If you look in the actual lib/ directory where the work happens, you will see a bunch of high-performance C written in and generated by Acado, which is a very efficient optimization framework. It does look like there is a bunch
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by HALtheWise 8y ago
I think he tried to say that Google was heavily involved with the development of the USB-C variant of the Ubikey (for example, for use with MacBook pros) rather than with the USB-C standard itself.
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Google says political advertisers will require an ID(theverge.com)
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It is probably fair to say that initially SpaceX was "forced" to perform hover slams due to thrust/weight ratios, but they seem to have embraced that option and turned it into a strength. For example, some of their landings n
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This sort of problem is probably why the article doesn't recommend compiler warnings as a useful intervention point: they can be ignored, but then continue to annoy future developers who aren't responsible for the mistake.
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by HALtheWise 9y ago
Those are good questions to ask (particularly what the best construction technique is for vertical shafts), but I think your numbers for the elevators are wildly wrong. Firstly, there should be no real reason for the tunnels to be deeper t
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For the US, the entire digital ad market is $83B/yr, which works out to $257 per person per year, or $717 per household. Keep in mind that about half of the country's population is "frequent internet users", so that numb
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by HALtheWise 9y ago
For anyone who thought the panoramas were cool, there's a ton of unbelievably high resolution panoramas from the Apollo missions available online at https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/
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by HALtheWise 9y ago
Just read the scripts from your test function, then go will check their hashes and rerun the test if they changed.